This is a quote from an e-mail I sent to the lead dev of pstoedit: Hi, not easily. pstoedit currently retrieves quite low level primitives from ghostscript and by the "high level" information about what constitutes a circle is lost. There are two approaches that come to my mind: a) pstoedi...

Thanks for looking into this with me. Your file is almost exactly the same as if you save as R12 dxf. It appears to be many short straight lines. Also I am using linux and i believe that pstoedit is what inkscape is using to be compatable with different file types.

Thanks again,

Does anyone know if there are plans to improve the DXF output? Or is there someone willing to write new code for a donation?

Why when I draw a circle (or other shapes and/or lines), then save as dxf, does it not preserve the original format. My example to this is if I draw a circle, then save as dxf, when I open in my CAD I have 4 splines instead of a circle. Also my only options are old dxf formats i.e. R12 which is even...